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The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXVI – Trump Declares War On American Citizens

~ tomdolen


*** “With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds…to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves…” [ Abraham Lincoln; Second Inaugural Address ]

Well, Trump has officially done it – admitted he thinks some American citizens are “disloyal,” must be rooted out, jailed, perhaps exiled or executed. He, of course, won’t do the dirty work, as usual, he’ll have somebody else do it, in this case, the U.S. military – on American streets…….

1]. “president Donald Trump on Tuesday proposed using American cities as training grounds for the armed forces and spoke of needing U.S. military might to combat what he called the “invasion from within.” [“Trump urges military brass to quell ‘invasion from within'”; Ben Finley Konstantin Toropin, Evan Vucci; Assoc. Press.; 10/1/25]

*** “The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.” [Adolf Hitler]

2] “It’s a war from within,” [Trump] said. In that moment, the president again pitted himself against the wishes of the country’s founding fathers, historians and former military leaders say. Mr. Trump’s suggestion hat ‘we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military” is in tension with a core principle that the country’s armed services have long sought to preserve – that the military should be nonpartisan.”
“This principle, with its deep roots in American democratic traditions, is meant to ensure that the standing army initially feared by the country’s founding fathers serves the nation as a whole, and not one political party or leader.” [Helene Cooper: “Trump’s Military Goals Contradict Nonpartisan Roots”; New York Times; 10/3/25]

***. “May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.” [General, 34th President – Dwight Eisenhower]

Note; for perspective – research details on the May 4, 1970 tragedy at Kent State for context of what could happen if U.S. troops are called out to deal with ‘the enemy within.”

*** “Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.” [ General Douglas MacArthur ]

3] “I don’t understand the reasoning of several recent letter writers who have protested use of the term “fascist” to describe the behavior of the Trump administration.”

“Merriam-Webster describes ‘fascism” as “a populist political philosophy, movement, or regime…that is associated a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, and that is characterized by severe economic and social regimentation and by forcible suppression of opposition.”…

“Trump has violated and disregarded the law, condemned legal decisions he disagrees with, attacked individual judges and launched criminal investigations of attorneys who pursued cases against him. With his draconian cuts to federal spending, he has usurped powers reserved for Congress. he violated the Posse Comitatus Act when he deployed the national Guard to Los Angeles, D.C., Memphis and now Portland, and again when he directed 600 military lawyers to serve as temporary immigration judges. Trump has targeted universities, journalists, corporate executives and governors. unable to stomach an election loss, he incited an angry crowd to attack legislators and law enforcement officers at the Capitol, then pardoned all who were convicted of these offenses. Now Trump has urged military officers to use U.S. cities as ‘training grounds’ and to suppress ‘the enemy from within.” [J.N.: letter to the editor; Minnesota Star Tribune; “This ‘enemy’ talk should make you nervous”; 10/2/25]

*** “{The tyrant} is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.” [ Plato ]

FOR CONTEXT: research the 1940s-60s McCarthy era “Red Scare,” when the power of “our” federal government was used to persecute innocent people accused of being “communists” [the enemy within]. Thousands had their lives ruined, lost their jobs, were blacklisted, were required to take “loyalty oaths.” Griffin Fariello’s oral history, “Red Scare,’ called it ‘the American Inquisition.” And/or – read David Caute’s “The Great Fear.”

Make sue YOU research attorney Joseph N. Welch, who’s question to Senator McCarthy lives on in American history as one of our “finest hours.” During the 1954 McCarthy-Army hearings, Mr. Welch, in exasperation, said to Senator McCarthy: “Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?”

This won’t work with “our’ president, because Donald J. Trump has NO sense of decency or shame – BUT – we are waiting for somebody to ask him precisely that.

***. “It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.” [ Benjamin Franklin ]

NOTE: We will post more shortly on Nazi Germany 1933-38. What YOU need to know now: Hitler used government power against German citizens; people were required to pledge “loyalty” to Der Fuhrer; independent sources of power were eliminated/controlled. Sound familiar????????????

***. “I do not fight fascists because I will win. I fight fascists because they are fascists.” [ Chris Hedges ]

The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXV – Using Government Power to Persecute American Citizens

~ tomdolen

*** “Today, as in ages past, we are not without tragic proof that the exulted power of some governments to punish manufactured crime dictatorially is the handmaid of tyranny.” [ Justice Hugo Black ]

1] “The first 100 days of President Trump’s second term did more damage to American democracy than anything else since the demise of Reconstruction. Mr. Trump is attempting to create a presidency unconstrained by Congress or the courts, in which he and his appointees can override written law when they want to. It is precisely that autocratic approach that this nation’s founders sought to prevent when writing the Constitution.” [ “Fight Like Our Democracy Depends On It.”; Editorial; New York Times; 5/4/25 ]

***. “The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don’t ask for their love; only for their fear.” [ Heinrich Himmler; Nazi Reichsfuhrer – SS ]

2] “Control has been a relentless focus of the second Trump administration. And Mr. Trump’s efforts to assert that control at home draw on the security infrastructure the United States built to impose its will abroad. Deportations and policing have been militarized and supported by big data. Legal authorities designed to confront enemies beyond our borders have been enlisted to justify actions within them. Threats of crime are hyped far out of proportion…The othering previously reserved for jihadists or communists is applied to immigrants and the “radical left.”….The empire came home.” [ Ben Rhodes: “Britain Offers a Warning of What America could Become”; New York Times; 9/21/25 ]

*** “We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected…When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains.” [Russell Vought; Trump administration official; “Project 2025” author]

3] “The events of the past week in Virginia mark a dark new stage in President Trump’s effort to turn federal law enforcement into a personal tool of oppression and vengeance. He is undermining a core premise of the American justice system: the fair and equal enforcement of the law.”…
“He has removed any pretense that the law is blind. As despots have done for centuries, he is persecuting people he considers his enemies, with little justification other than raw political power. It is reminiscent of the old royal notion…I am the state..”……[ “Comey’s Indictment Signals A Grave New Chapter”; Editorial; New York Times; 9/28/25 ]

*** “Decency, security and liberty alike demand that government officials shall be subjected to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen. In a government of laws, existence of the government will be imperiled if it fail to observe the law scrupulously….If the Government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.” [ Justice Louis Brandeis ]

4]. “We have seen much debate over the merits and timing of a legal case against Mr. Comey… but any such discussion misses the most important point: We don’t want to live in a country where the president dictates, publicly or privately, who should be targeted by federal prosecutors and then pressures any prosecutor unwilling to bring said politically motivated charges.”……..
“Step by step, action by action, Mr. Trump has been trying to turn the Justice Department and the F.B.I. into political weapons that target whom he tells them to. The weaponization of federal criminal charges against political enemies stands as one of the most alarming signs of mr. Trump’s creeping authoritarian tendencies.” [ Garrett m. Graff: “After Comey, Who Will Be The President’s Next Target?”; New York Times; 9/27/25 ]

*** “There can be no free society without law administered through an independent judiciary. if one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is the law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.” [. Justice Felix Frankfurter ]

5]. “The ouster on Friday of the federal prosecutor who failed to charge two of President Trump’s most-reviled adversaries was a huge blow to the Justice Department’s teetering tradition of independence, showing how far Mr. Trump has gone in exerting personal control over the institution.”….
“… the move strikes at the nuts-and-bolts foundations of the criminal justice system. It seems intended both to create a frictionless path for prosecutions of those who have run afoul of Mr. Trump and perhaps to provide the White House with a tool it could use to set aside or slow cases it would like to see disappear.” [ Alan Feuer, Glenn Thrush, Maggie Haberman, Devlin Barrett: “Ouster Pushes Justice Dept. Closer to Cliff”; New York Times; 9/21/25 ]

*** “There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be not to trust no man living with the power to endanger the public liberty.” [ John Adams, 2nd president ]

6]. “”The push for the indictment trampled over the agency’s long tradition of maintaining distance from the White House and resisting political pressure, and it raised the prospect of further arbitrary prosecutions pushed by Mr. Trump against his enemies…the break-glass moment…”
“The rush to prosecute Mr. Comey was the clearest example yet of how the normal process of justice has been reversed under mr.cTrump, showing how the president came into his second term with targets already in mind…”
[ Alan Feuer, Jonnah Bromwich, Maggie Haberman: “A Presidency of Reprisal Tramples on Safeguards”; New York Times; 9/27/25 ]

***. “Obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken.” [ Adolf Hitler ]

7]. “We are now seeing that such painstakingly built institutions are remarkably fragile. Historian and philosopher Yuval Harari centered his panoramic book about the history of mankind, “Sapiens,” on the idea that the foundation of civilization is no more than a collection of stories…….. Similarly, all institutions consist of just a fragile belief in our heads. The rule of law, democracy, civil rights, the United States itself? Just thoughts in our heads……… If people stop believing in the fair, independent enforcement of laws that apply to everyone, why should anyone follow the law?
“Our choice now is whether we allow ourselves to get used to the corrosive idea of legally sanctioned favoritism and retribution. Or whether we hold fast to the thought of America as a principled, just, law-based country.” [Bruce Peterson: “Institutions are fragile, as recent Trump moves show”; Minnesota Star Tribune; 9/25/25 ] {Note: Peterson is a senior district judge]

*** “The doctrine of the separation of powers was adopted..not to promote efficiency but to preclude the exercise of arbitrary power. The purpose was, not to avoid friction, but by means of the inevitable friction incident to the distribution of the governmental powers among three departments, to save the people from autocracy.” [ Justice Louis Brandeis ]

America is NOW closer to theocratic plutocracy and/or dictatorship than ever. THIS is what the people above just told YOU. Read about “Project 2025″ – the FAR RIGHT blueprint for all this, created by the POWER BEHIND TRRUMP. Research the decisions made by the CORRUPT Roberts ‘court.” Look at Trump’s DEMAND for red state redistricting. YOU are witnessing a COUP by TEAM REPUBLICAN. Speak up – while you still can. Protest. Vote the CORRUPT Republicans out in 2026 – because that MAT BE YOUR LAST CHANCE TO SAVE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY. American democracy is dying right in front of you – and WILL, if YOU just sit there…………….

The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXIV – Trump Embarrasses America Before The World

~ tomdolen

*** “Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.” [Plato]

1] On Tuesday, September 23, 2025 – “our” president, one Donald John Trump, illustrated fro the entire world that America is being run by fools, incompetents, ideologues, and know-nothings. In a “meandering” 56 minute rant, “Trump lectured the United Nations and other countries about how they are failing and aired a list of grievances….The White House had billed Trump’s address..as a chance for the president to lay out his vision for how the U.S. should wield its power abroad.”
“Trump undermined the scientific consensus on climate change, saying it was “made by stupid people”…called climate change the “greatest con job’ perpetrated on the world and claimed environmentalists are out to eliminate America’s cows.” On religion, Trump “falsely claimed that Muslim leaders in the West are planning to institute sharia law, while proclaiming Christianity to be the “most persecuted religion on the planet.”……
Trump ‘personally insulted the Muslim mayor of London. he bashed allies and foes around the world. He questioned whether the United Nations should even exist.” [“At the U.N., Trump slams strike near and far”; Luke Broadwater; New York Times; 9/24/25]

*** “There are some people, that if they don’t know, you can’t tell ’em.” [ Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong ]

2] On Monday, September 22, 2025, Trump warmed up for his early Halloween scarefest by attacking the use of Tylenol by pregnant women, “suggesting a connection between the widely used medication and autism…”Fight like hell not to take it.” [“Here’s what experts say about Tylenol”; Niha Masih, Ariana Eunjung Cha; Washington Post; 9/24/25]

3] On Wednesday, “The World Health Organization has joined the international pushback against the Trump administration’s warnings that acetaminophen use during pregnancy leads to autism, saying Wednesday there is ‘no conclusive scientific evidence confirming a possible link.”
“Public health leaders and organizations around the world have been sounding off since President Donald Trump called Monday to limit use of acetaminophen – the active ingredient in Tylenol and more than 600 other medications.”…
“The move is a sharp departure from the accepted guidance on a medication that many major medical associations have deemed safe..” [WHO rejects Tylenol warnings”; Vivian Ho, Karla Adam; Washington Post; 9/25/25]

***. “The wise man takes pleasure in what is honorable, but the fool is not vexed by shamefulness.” [ Plutarch ]


[A note of caution and early warning: there are three more Halloweens before January 20, 2029. Given the scary, spook-filled track record of the Trump DICTATORSHIP, it appears there will be many more. “TRICKS” performed by the CLOWNS in “your” government, but – unless YOU are a billionaire – not many, if any. “TREATS.” ]

Thoughts on Truth; Thoughts On America’s Future

~ tomdolen

***** “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” [ John 8: 32 ]

Some thoughts on America’s future from George Packer’s visit to the Phoenix area. Excerpts from “The Valley,: The Atlantic; July-August, 2024 ]:

“Democracy is..a fragile artifice. It depends less on tradition and law than on the shifting contents of individual skulls – belief, virtue, restraint. It’s durability under natural and human stress is being put to an intense test in the Valley. And because a vision of vanishing now haunts the whole country, Phoenix is a guide to our future.”………..

“If, like almost everything else in American politics, water turns deeply partisan and ideological, contaminated by conspiracy theories and poisoned with memes, then preserving this drought-stricken civilization will get a lot harder, like trying to solve Rubik’s Cube while fending off a swarm of wasps that you might be hallucinating.”…….

*** “We are dominated by the fanatic, whose worst vice is his sincerity.” [ Oscar Wilde ]

“In a place like Maryvale, you realize how righteously stupid the culture wars make both sides. There’s no reason to think that great books and moral education have anything to do with MAGA. There’s no reason reading Virgil should require banning children from changing names. There’s no reason to view Western civilization as simply virtuous or vicious, only as the one that most shaped our democracy. There’s no reason to dumb down humanistic education and expect our society to become more just. If we could do something about the true impediments to the Cortez family’s dreams – if Fabian could earn enough from his backbreaking work for the six of them to live in four rooms instead of two; if insurance could cover treatment for Ericka’s illnesses so she doesn’t have to delay seeing a doctor until her life is threatened; if the local public schools could give their daughters a safe and decent education; if America could allow the family to stop being afraid and live in the sunlight – then by all means let’s get back to fighting over name changes and reading lists.” ……….

*** ” [Our prejudices are] so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense.”
[ George Bernard Shaw ]

“Identity is a pernicious form of political division, because its appeal is based on traits we don’t choose and can’t change. It’s inherently irrational, and therefore likely to lead to violence. Identity politicians – and Trump is one – don’t win elections and arguments about ideas, or by presenting a vision of a world more attractive than their opponent’s. They win by appealing to the solidarity of group identity, which has to be mobilized by whipping up fear and hatred of other groups.” …………..

*** “When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us, power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.” [ Dale Carnegie ]

“Unlike identities, ideas are open to persuasion, and persuasion depends on understanding and reaching other people. But when partisanship itself becomes a group identity, a tribal affiliation with markers as clear as Jeff Zink’s handgun, dividing us into mutually unintelligible blocs with incompatible realities, then the stakes of every election are existential, and it becomes hard to live together in the same country without killing one another.” …………….

*** “We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” [ Martin Luther King, Jr. ]


{Note: ironically – Charlie Kirk is mentioned for ‘the business model” of a speech he delivered……………… ]

The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXI – The COST of Trump’s Policies to America, Now, and In The Future

~ tomdolen

***** “Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.” [ Francis Bacon ]

31] BREAKING NEWS !!!!! – “Trump lifts rules on tax shelters” [Jesse Drucker; New York Times; 9/10/25]: “The Trump administration is quietly dismantling efforts by the IRS to shut down a slew of aggressive tax shelters used by America’s biggest multinational companies and wealthiest people….bowing to pressure from industry groups, right-wing activists and congressional Republicans…The IRS crackdown was projected to raise more than $100 billion over 10 years.” [Note: Read the entire article for more!!! There’ll be NO cameo P.R. photo of Trump holding up some “document” he signed!!! YOU are NOT supposed to know about this. Just like you are NOT supposed to know about Trump’s frolics with Jeffrey Epstein!!!!]

It is quite likely that the Trump DICTATORSHIP has ALREADY caused more damage to America than any previous American government. Below, just from headlines, are SOME examples:

1]”Caught in a Doom Loop Of Thinking “Short-Term…Trump may be able to escape the consequences of his actions; the rest of us cannot” [Ben Rhodes; New York Times; 8/17/25]

2] “International Students See Asian Universities as Refuge…Higher Education in the U.S. is seen as a riskier proposition in the Trump era” [ Lydia DePillis, Jin Yu Young; New York Times; 8/17/25 ]

3]. “On Trade, The World Is Moving On Without Us…A sign of the folly of Trump’s policy is that it has inspired no apparent envy among other nations”. [ New York times Editorial; 9/7/25 ]

4] “EPA aims to scrap key policy on climate…Agency wants to rescind finding that greenhouse gas emissions are a risk”. [ Jake Spring; Washington Post; 7/24/25 ]

5]. “Diluted report on human rights dims America’s beacon’ [ John Rash; Minnesota Star Tribune; 8/16/25 ]: “Never before have the reports gone this far in prioritizing an administration’s political agenda..”

6]. “White House plan undermines the possibility of a fair and responsible AI” [ Mohammed Hosseini; St.Paul Pioneer Press; 8/10/25 ]: “The result is an ecosystem in which public research fuels private profit, reinforcing the dominance of tech giants.”

7]. “The Bill for Trumponomics Is Coming Due…White House policies are leading us to rising inflation and slowing growth”. [ Jared Bernstein, Ryan Cummings; New York Times; 8/10/25 ]

8]. “The Death of the Fourth American Republic…Trump is working in tandem with the Supreme Court” [ Jamelle Bouie; New York Times; 8/10/25 ]

9] “What Trump’s War on the Smithsonian Costs us All” [ David Firestone; New York Times; 8/10/25]: “The Trump administration..has made an aggressive effort to rewrite not only its own history but also that of the United states.”

10]. “Trump is Letting TIKTOK [And China] Win…The president’s disregard for federal law is a gift to the world’s most powerful authoritarian government” [ New York Times Editorial; 8/10/25 ]

*** “[The tyrant] is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.” [ Plato ]

11] “America Is Turning Into a Doddering Giant Hooked On Oil…Smothering the electric vehicle industry is economic idiocy”. [ Robinson Meyer; New York Times; 8/10/25 ]

12]. “Federal DOJ twists attorney ethics into misconduct” [ Rob Doar; Minnesota Star Tribune; 8/11/25 ]

13]. “Appeals court grants DOGE access to American’s sensitive data”. [ Zach Montague; New York Times; 8/13/25]: – A Trump judge and a Bush II judge are the 2-1 majority !!!!!!!!!!!!

14]. “Good for Nvidia shareholders, maybe, But Bad for America” [ Washington Post; 8/17/25 ]

15]. “Defunding science? Penny wise and pound stupid…Weakening America” [ Steven Furianetto; Los Angeles Times; 8/17/25 ]

16] “The cost of Trump’s tariffs is finally coming into focus”. [ Ernie Tedeschi; St.Paul Pioneer Press; 8/24/25 ]

17] “the White House Is Undoing 80 Years of American Greatness…Gutting health and science research squanders the nation’s legacy of innovation”. [ Garrett Graff; New York Times; 8/17/25 ]

18] “Complaint says Social security data at risk…DOGE exposed details, Whistleblower says”. [ Nicholas Nehamas; New York Times; 8/27/25 ]

19]. “A Fed loyal to Trump would cost borrowers”. [ Christopher Rugaber; Assoc. Press; 8/1/25 ]: ‘..the result would likely be higher inflation and, over time, higher borrowing costs for things like mortgages, car loans, and business loans.”

20] “Trump’s Budget Will Devastate Health Care for Rural Families Like Mine…The So-called “Big Beautiful Bill” will throw millions of Americans off Medicaid and put hundreds of rural hospitals at risk of closing” [ Ta’kyla Bates; The Progressive Populist; August, 2025 ]

*** “Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.” [ Goethe ]

21] “PFAS change may cost taxpayers billions…EPA proposal on “forever chemicals’ would shift cleanup costs away from the polluters”. [ Hiroko Tabuchi; New York Times; 8/29/25 ]

22]. ‘If economic storm hits, the severity is uncertain…The fiscal data has turned darker amid tariffs, spending cuts”. [ Lydia DePillis; New York Times; 8/24/25 ]

23] “World Scientists look Elsewhere as U.S. Labs Reel From Trump Cuts…America is at risk of losing its long-standing pre-eminence” [ James Glanz; new York Times; 6/1/25 ]

24]. “Trump’s policy changes are making us more susceptible to terrorists…He’s taking law enforcements, assets and funding off the counterterrorism beat, and putting them at ICE’s disposal to track down immigrants.” [ Ben Weisbuch, Phil McGovern; Minnesota Star Tribune; 6/26/25 ]

25]. “Trump’s FBI Has Made America LessSafe…The White House’s political witch hunt is compromising the bureau’s effectiveness.” [ New York Times Editorial; 7/6/25 ]

26]. “Cuts Are Harming Disaster Readiness…Trump, GOP weaken research, resources, as climate change adds fuel to storms.” [ Lisa Friedman, Maxine Joselaw, Coral Davenport, Megan Mineiro; New York Times; 7/14/25 ]

27] “We are witnessing the suicide of a superpower”. [ Max Boot; Washington Post Weekly; 6/8/25 ]: “..[Trump] is doing grave and possibly irreparable damage to the real source of U.S. strength..declaring war on science, and the casualty will be the U.S. economy.”

28]. “Rivals rise as Trump dismantles Voice of America….As the U.S. lets go of its global megaphone, other powers celebrate, and seize the opportunity’. [ Tiffany Hsu; New York Times; 6/29/25 ]

29]. “Nuclear Site Grew After Trump’s Moves…some say demolished gear wouldn’t have existed if Obama’s deal hadn’t been scuttled” [ William Broad, Ronen Bergman; New York Times; 6/29/25 ]

30]. “Project 2026. Trump’s Plan To Hijack The Next Election”. [ Ari Berman; Mother Jones; September-October, 2025 ]: “Nationalizing voter suppression….Silencing Trump’s enemies….Dismantling efforts to prevent election interference….Targeting Democratic officials….Weaponizing the Justice Department….State-level voter suppression and election subversion….Trump-dominated courts gutting voting rights….Gerrymandering the states….Blocking election certification.”

*** Trump; “I have an Article II, where i have the right to do whatever i want as president.” [ George Will; ‘Dismal marks, only two months in” Washington post Weekly; 3/23/25 ]


[Note; read this list again – knowing it is only a SMALL part of the vast damage Trump is doing to America; a SMALL part of the damage he intends to do in the future – carrying out “Project 2025” s wish list

Trump’s presidency is going to cost YOU, YOUR children – in MANY ways besides money. And this before a REALLY BIG ONE: We did not mention Trump’s immoral 2017 tax cuts, which HIS Congress just made permanent. Beside being responsible for about 25% of YOUR national debt – there are all the CUTS required to pay for it – to health, education, safety net, Medicare and Medicaid, park rangers, airport safety, weather reporting…..

Trump is grievously damaging America’s reputation around the world; drastically cutting away at America’s “soft power”. around the world. YOUR children WILL pay for this.

YOU might ponder; king Louis XV of France once said: ‘After me, the deluge.” he was right – revolution, beheadings. followed him. What follows King Donald I ?????????????

The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LVI – Trump’s DICTATORSHIP is Created Right Before YOUR Eyes

~ tomdolen

***** “When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.” [Earl Warren]

Look around YOU, at daily headlines!!! American freedoms, YOUR freedoms, are being chipped away – issue after issue, group after group. If YOU don’t fit the “Trump vision” of what “loyal” American is – YOU are a candidate for legal action against YOU.

In how many ways is the Trump administration trying to censor information, to rewrite American history? – changing signs in national parks, changing ow the Smithsonian operates, deleting information from government websites, attacking universities, dictating PUBLIC school curriculum, attacking journalists, attacking judges………..

1] Read Jason Stanley’s. “Erasing History…How Fascists…Rewrite…The Past…To control…The Future.” Or – read “1984,”

Or – study how Stalinist Russia, Nazi Germany, Communist China….have done this in REAL LIFE.



*** “Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.” [Harry Truman, U.S. President]





People in 2025 America. ARE living in fear – many different categories for different reasons. THAT has been an ANNOUNCED goal of the Trump administration.

2] Remember this – there were at least 6 major badges in Auschwitz: red for “politicals,” green for “criminals,” pink for homosexuals, black for “anti-socials,” purple for Jehovah’s Witnesses, yellow for Jews. [Peter Padfield; “Himmler”]

The Trump administration has now DONE what it said a previous administration did: WEAPONIZE the federal government AGAINST the American people. Look at what and WHO is favored, NOT attacked or persecuted. THEN – look at what or WHO IS attacked or persecuted. Things that support average Americans like YOU are attacked – grants to build infrastructure, support public education, support science; student loans [this recall process could ripple through the economy]; a rational and fair tax structure; the dispensing of critical information [weather, economic data]; crippled and withheld; changing voting rules, practices, laws;…and much more…………

*** “Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.” [John Lindsay]

3] CORRUPTING the 2026 congressional elections !!!!!!!!!!!! – Right in YOUR face !!!!!!!!!
A] Trump DEMANDED that Texas re-do its congressional election districts in order to FIND ways to CREATE 5 safe Republican seats – and, of course, Texas Republicans followed their marching orders from Der Leader. So now – either Democrats accept this corruption. – or. – they fight back. – producing a “race to the bottom”. -which threatens American democracy.
B} Read daily headlines of this Trump-ordered CORRUPTION – “Trump to target mail-in voting’ [Dylan Wells; Washington Post; 8/19/25]: “…Trump in a series of misleading statements….another sign Trump is trying to alter the rules around voting….falsely claiming….widespread fraud….The Constitution does not allow the president to direct states what to do, as Trump falsely claimed….he has used the method himself..” [!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]
C] Read “Project 2026…Trump’s Plan To Hijack The Next Election” [Ari Berman: Mother Jones; September-October, 2025}
D}. Research “gerrymander” – since 1812 recognized as a CORRUPT election maneuver – and, of course, ther CORRUPT Roberts “court” refused to rule it out !!!!!!!!!!

Read and listen to daily headlines on REAL mainstream news, U.S. and foreign. Donald Trump and the Rasputins around him, many from “Project 2025,” are carrying out the long-range plans of the FAR RIGHT – read how they planned it:
– “Evil Geniuses” [Kurt Andersen]; “The Conspiracy To End America” [Stuart Stevens]; “Democracy In Chains [Nancy MacLean]; “Dark Money” [Jane Mayer]: “Antidemocratic: Inside the Far Right’s 50-Year Plan To Control American Elections” [David Daley]; “Vigilante Nation” {Jon Michaels, David Knoll]; “On Tyranny” [Timothy Snyder]; “How Fascism Works” [Jason Stanley]; “Twilight of Democracy” [Anne Applebaum]

*** “We can either have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentration in the hands of a few. but we can’t have both.” [Justice Lous Brandeis]

*** “You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom. You can only be free if I am free.” [Clarence Darrow]

True, real, American democracy now hangs by an increasingly threatened narrow thread. – what are YOU going to do to protect YOUR freedom – and that of YOUR children and of YOUR grandchildren ????????????

*** “The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.” [Dante Alighieri]

The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LV – Making Up “Enemies” That “Only I”. Can Save YOU From!

~ tomdolen

*** “This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs: When he first appears, he is a protector” [Plato]

Donald Trump NEEDS “enemies.” He desperately needs to find ‘enemies” – so “Only I”. can save YOU from “them.” Times, places, villains, “reasons” change – the formula does not. Find an “enemy”; cook up some “rationale”; be the “strong man on horseback”. who rides in to “save” America.

Consider Trump’s most recent episode: “saving” Washington, D.C. from “caravans of mass youth” rampaging city streets. And: “Our capital city has been overtaken by vilent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged-out maniacs and homeless people.”

Trump’s “solution?” – Call in the military. Send in National Guard troops, FBI agents, U.S. marshals, D.E.A agents, Alcohol,Tobacco,Firearms & Explosives agents and other agents. Are these people ALL trained to police American streets? NOT HARDLY !!!!!!!!!! Is putting these people on D.C. streets going to hurt American national security in the areas from which their expertise is, and, they’re now pulled away from? YES !!!!!!!!!! – as numerous people have already testified.

***** “Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor –
with the cry of grave national emergency.” [ General Douglas MacArthur, 1957 ]

Consider information on these issues from the following excerpts:
A] “Trump send Guard into D.C.” [Josh Boak, David Klepper; Associated Press; 8/12/25]
1]. “…activating 800 members of the National Guard in the hopes of reducing crime, even as city officials stressec crime is already falling in the nation’s capital.”
2] “..push his tough-on-crime agenda, though he has not proposed solutions to the root causes of homelessness or crime.”
3]. “The president dismissed the idea Washington needed to enlarge its 3,500-officer police force, even as he seeks to have more armed personnel going through the city with the goal of reducing crime.” [!!! But – that would be too logical, and, more importantly, would not be “good TV’ !!!!!!!!]
4]. “While Trump has portrayed himself as a friend to law enforcement and enjoyed the political backing from many of their groups, he pardoned or commuted the sentences of the 1,500-plus people charged with crimes in the deadly Jan.6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot, including people convicted of assaulting police officers.”

*** “The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.” [Andre Gide]

5] “…the federal government could be far more helpful by funding more prosecutors or filling the 15 vacancies on the D.C. Superior Court, some of which have been open for years.”

6 “Trump has emphasized the removal of Washington’s homeless population, though it was unclear where the thousands of people would go, and he did not give details..”

***** “Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.” [ Aristotle ]

B] “Trump Proclaims Federal Control Of The D.C. Police” [Katie Rogers; New York Times; 8/12/25]
1] “..Mr. Trump painted Washington as an urban hellscape, repurposing some of the incendiary language he has used to describe conditions on the southern border. Mr. Trump has railed against crime in urban, largely liberal cities for decades…’
2] “There are practical questions about how Mr. Trump’s plans would be carried out…Federal officials were still working out many of the operational details…”
3] “Mr. Trump’s remarks seemed largely aimed at rewriting history and the reality of crime in Washington. Soon after he took office, mr. Trump pardoned hundreds of rioters…”
4] “.. in summer. 2020, Mr. Trump deployed more than 5,000 National Guard troops to Washington to crack down on mostly peaceful demonstrators pushing for racial justice…widely seen as a debacle.” [ Would it be correct to say that under a Trump regime – it matters WHO you are when you demonstrating???]

***** “There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be trust no man living with the
power to endanger the public liberty.” [ John Adams ]

C] “Military Is Again Pulled Into a Domestic Concern”. [ Eric Schmitt, Helene Cooper; New York Times; 8/12/25]
1] “.. the latest example of how the president has used the military to advance domestic policy priorities…Already this year, Mr. Trump has deployed some 10,000 active-duty troops to the southwest U.S,. border to choke off the flow of drugs as well as migrants, and 4,700 National guard troops and Marines to Los Angeles to quell protests..”
2] “Mr. Trump last month secretly signed a directive to the Pentagon to begin using military force against certain Latin American drug cartels that his administration has deemed terrorist organizations.
3]. “The U.S. military responds quickly to executive directives. for that reason, it is a preferred institution for a president who presents himself as tough on crime, undocumented immigrants, drugs, “woke” culture and other perceived domestic enemies.’
4] “Mr. Trump’s directive deploying National Guard troops to Washington ‘is a fraught one because it will seem partisan from the go,’ said Peter Feaver, a political science professor at Duke University. “The military does not train for normal police beat-walking missions,’ Mr. Feaver said..”
5]. “This is part of a pattern where the administration is using and appropriating military resources for nonmilitary domestic goals,” said Carrie A. Lee, the former chair of the department of national security and strategy at the Army War College.”
6]. “During Mr. Trump’s first term, Pentagon and military leaders cautioned him against using troops to shoot racial justice protesters in the legs, as former aides have said he suggested.” [looks like, to Trump, it DOES matter WHO you are when you “protest” – trashing the U.S. Capitol would be forgiven, racial justice would NOT]
7] “…members of the California National Guard said the deployment to Los Angeles had eroded morale…Guard officials also expressed concerns that the deployment would hurt re-enlistment.”

Would an administration noted for being vengeful, partisan, ideological, be sending armed American military into cities – be doing that ONLY in Democratic-run cities, in “blue’ states??? have, are, any SIGNIFICANT raids occurred in Republican-run cities and states??? Just asking………..

***** “If Fascism came to America, it would be on a program of Americanism.” [ Huey p. Long ]

The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LIV – Eliminating ANY Bad News to Cover Up Incompetence

~ tomdolen

***** “Why sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” [Alice in Wonderland]

Nothing illustrates the. STUPIDITY, CRUELTY, CORRUPTION, CRAZINESS, INCOMPETENCE of the Trump DICTATORSHIP than the recent firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics leader. No fact-based, competent. administration would be this stupid and incompetent. Dear people; America is very quickly becoming a kleptocratic “Banana Republic.” Right before your eyes.

Consider REAL. WORLD. FACTS – as reported in these three articles:
1] “Why the Bureau of Labor Statistics regularly revises jobs data” [Ben Casselman; New York Times; 8/10/25]
2] “In Trump we trust, at our own peril” [Edward Lotterman; St. Paul Pioneer Press; 8/10/25]
3]. “Numbers Don’t Lie. Can We Keep It That Way?” [Jeff Sommer; New York Times; 8/10/25]

***** “The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.” [Alexandre Dumas]

A] “Why the Bureau of Labor Statistics regularly revises jobs data”
1] “To the economists and investors who obsessively scrutinize the employment numbers, revisions are normal – an inevitable if sometimes frustrating part of trying to measure a $30 trillion economy.”
2]. “Trump claimed without evidence that McEntarfer had “rigged” the numbers to hurt him politically.”
3]. “Economists across the political spectrum decried McEntarfer’s firing, and dismissed the notion that she would, or could, meddle with the monthly jobs figures.”
4]. “The challenges facing the agency, they added, long predated McEntarfer’s leadership and will be difficult for her successor to address without increased funding. Instead, the Trump administration has proposed further cuts to the agency’s budget.” [ Trump. stupidity, incompetence. illustrated, PROVED !!!!!!! ]
5] “The average revision during Trump’s first six months in office is almost identical to the average during the four years of the Biden administration.

B] “In Trump we trust, at our own peril” [Edward Lotterman; St. Paul Pioneer Press; 8/10/25]
1] “..President Donald Trump’s lying about the validity of the Bureau of Labor Statistic’s job numbers released and then firing its very capable commissioner.
2]. “..in great part because he and minions like Kevin Hassett, director of the National Economic council, keep doubling down, the damage may be broader, longer-lasting, and perhaps irreversible. However, few voters or members of the Republican party seem to appreciate the gravity of what is happening.”
3] “Start with some simple facts and contradictions: 1. Trump wants lower interest rates, especially on politically critical ones like mortgages. 2. Trump wants to claim a booming economy with high employment and output….Therefore, Trump cannot have both 1 and 2 at the same time.”
4] “What is even more frustrating is that Trump is too obtuse to see how his lack of self-control is sabotaging his own goals
5] “..the crux of the problem: Trump says the trusted numbers can’t be trusted, so he creates a situation where everyone knows the numbers can’t be trusted.”

***** “Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.” [ Confucius ]

C]. “Numbers Don’t Lie. Can We Keep it that Way?” [Jeff Sommer; New York Times; 8/10/25]
1]. “Imagine living in a country where you can’t trust the government’s numbers. I don’t have to imagine it. I spent time in China and the Soviet Union in the 1980s….U.S. official data isn’t tainted like this, but it may be heading there. President Trump didn’t like the numbers he was seeing in the latest government jobs report. So he fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics..”
2]. “THe furor over statistics comes at a critical moment for the economy. So much is changing that we need to know where the economy is heading. MNr. Trump has cast doubt on ther official data precisely when we need it most.”
3]. “If anyone tampered with the data, Ms. Groshen said, “we’d hear from whistleblowers, and employees would resign.” We’d know about it.”
4] “Rather accept that his own policies may have been responsible for the negative economic picture, the president attacked the bureau, saying the agency’s ‘numbers were RIGGED..”..”
5]. “In fact, a review by Bespoke Investment Group of the bureau’s jobs reports over several presidential election cycles since 1998 shows that it has been impartial.”
6] “There are reasons to be worried about data integrity beyond Mr. Trump’s assault on the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Science statistics have been vanishing from government websites…Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has disbanded expert advisory committees devoted to improving the quality of data on inflation, employment and gross domestic product. Funding of statistical agencies has been cut.” [Alice in Wonderland in action!!!!!!!!!!]

***** “It’s hard to believe anyone would vote for me. People must really be stupid.” [ Donald John Trump ]

The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LIII – Trump Sabotages America by Destroying Truth and Trust

~ tomdolen

***** “To this day, the lies, misrepresentations, and fabrications that are the sum total of who my uncle is are perpetrated by the Republican Party and white evangelical Christians.” [Mary Trump: “Too Much and Never Enough”]

As Trump’s niece relates, Trump grew up being allowed to lie; often creates his own reality. Those “alternate facts” were one thing in his business career, they are quite another when this flawed person is again president of the United States. Below are just four recent examples of how Trump’s war on truth sabotages America, at home and abroad.

A]. “In Trump’s World, Wild Numbers Are Real If He Says They Are” [Naftali Bendavid; Washington Post; 8/3/25]
1]. “president Donald Trump made a promise..for Republican lawmakers that was as impossible as it was specific: He would drive down drug prices by as much as 1,500%…A price cannot drop by more than 100%..”
2]. “The cost of gasoline had fallen to $1.99 a gallon in five states, he said; according to AAA, it was more than $3 in every state..”
3]. “Businesses had invested $16 trillion in America in the past four months, he added; the entire U.S. economy last year was worth less than $30 trillion.”
!!!!! – these three Trump lies were all said at ONE sitting !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
4]. “He uses statistics less as a factual statement of, ‘Here is what the best data says,” and more as rhetorical construct to sell an idea….He will choose a statistic based on what he thinks he can credibly say..” [Robert Rowland, University of Kansas communication professor]. [MEANING – how BIG a lie he can tell]

***** “Donald has always been able to get away with making blanket statements {“I know more about [fill in the blank] than anybody…he’s been allowed to riff about nuclear weapons, trade with China, and other things about which he knows nothing..” [ Mary Trump: “Too Much and Never Enough”]

B} “Trump erodes trust by firing labor-data official” [John Rash: Minnesota Star Tribune; 8/5/25]
1]. “Rather than reflect on employer uncertainty from policy prescriptions he’d implemented…Trump took to social media to claim the jb numbers were “RIGGED in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad.” The president, predictably, offered no evidence, because there is nine.”
2]. “Firing the labor statistician delivering the data is akin to breaking the thermometer because of a heat wave. Which..is what the administration is also doing regarding global warming..”
3]. “the latest episode was “a sad and tragic day. This ws a country, until last Friday, which consistently provided the highest quality statistics.. This firing signals to me that we are well on our way to becoming a country where the government is not to be trusted, statistics are not to be trusted, nobody is to be trusted.” [ University of Minnesota economics professor V.V. Chari]
4]. “..Publisher’s Weekly reported that during inauguration week last January, sales of “1984” increased 192%..While another Orwellian warning, “Animal Farm,” rose 136%..readers turning to Orwell’s classic novels to better understand current events.”
5]. “The current event Chari fears? “We are becoming a dictatorship in might quick time.”

***** “From his childhood..to his early forays into the New York real estate world and high society until today, Donald’s aberrant behavior has been consistently normalized by others.” [Mary Trump; “Too Much and Never Enough”]

C]. “Park signs about Indian history at risk” [Dee DePass; Minnesota Star Tribune; 8/5/25]
1]. “Federal officials are reviewing whether to remove books and signs with historical references to the harsh treatment of Native Americans from Minnesota’s national park sites.”
2]. Signs in national parks “..asked visitors to alert the government “of any signs or other information that are negative about either the past or living Americans” in support of Trump’s executive order called “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.” [!!! as in “1984,” Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany !!!!! – as in WHO. decides?????}
3] A resistance campaign, “Save our signs’. has so far acquired over 3,000 photos from the public to be used after Trump is gone – and truth returns. [ as in slaves did NOT “enjoy” slavery ]

***** “It is the absolute right of the state to supervise the formation of public opinion.” [Joseph Goebbels]

D] “Trump’s trade deman: Pledge money or get higher tariffs” [Alan Rappeport; New York Times; 8/5/25]
1] “President Donald Trump’s tariff threats have turned into a play for cold, hard cash as he tries to leverage U.S. economic power to cajole other nations to make multi-billion dollar investments to maintain access to America’s market.”
2]. “To trade experts..raise the question of whether Trump is negotiating with trading partners or trade hostages. “This is no doubt a global shakedown of sorts,” said Scott Lincicome {of the} Cato Institute.”
3]. There are many questions about what “commitments” mean. “Donald Trump is a gifted storyteller, and I think when his counterparts recognize this, they can play to it,’ Ames said. “If you’re negotiating with a narcissist, you look for ways to make them feel like they’ve won.” [Chinese “commitments” to buy American farm products in Trump’s first term “were never met.”]

*****”A lie once told remains a lie, but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth.” [Joseph Goebbels]

e]. “In Trump’s world {lies} are standard operating procedure. When lies are repeated, they have the effect of shutting down critical thinking – people turn a blind eye to the lie and to the truth. When a once respected and trusted sources of news are called fake or the enemy of the people, people are put into a double bind. They are discouraged from trying to reality check – they might even feel it is a betrayal to their allegiance to Trump to try to do so.” [Steven Hassan: “The Cult Of Trump”; Free Press; 2019]

***** “Trust is the foundation of leadership.” [Colin Powell]
***** “The object of the superior mind is truth.” [Confucius]
***** “Trust is the glue that holds government together.” [Gerald Ford]

The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LI – One small American Town Confronts the REALITY of Trump’s Deportations

~ tomdolen

Following is ONE story about what is happening in America as a result of “our’ president’s deportation regime. This story is told in: “Confronting thenReality of Deportation in a Conservative Town”. [ Nicholas Kristof; New York Times; 7/20/25 ]. Excerpts follow. Read the article!!!

1]. “Voters here in Oregon’s rural Yamhill County have backed Donald Trump for three presidential elections in a row..”

2]. “Then last month ICE detained Moises Sotelo, a beloved but undocumented Mexican immigrant who has lived in the county for 31 years and owns a vineyard management company employing 10 people…Sotelo was a pillar of his church and won a wine industry award – yet he was detained for 5 weeks and on Friday his family believed he was in transit and being deported to Mexico.”

3]. “Moises’ story just really shook our community,’ Elise Yarnell Hollamon, the City council president in Newberg, Sotelo’s hometown, told me. “Everyone knows him, and he has built a reputation within our community over the last few decades.”

4]. “The result has been an outpouring of support for Sotelo…More than 2,200 people have donated to a Gofundme for the family, raising more than $150,000 for legal and other expenses, and neighbors have been dropping off meals and offering vehicles and groceries.”

5]. “Bubba King, a county commissioner, put it this way: “We want tighter border security”. but also humane treatment of families.”

6]. “Judging from what unfolded here..voters may have wanted a tightening of the border and the deportation of criminals – but not the arrest of a longtime neighbor. They wanted Trump to pursue gangsters, not destory small businesses.”

7]. “Trump’s policy in his first term – which included ripping children from their parents and then losing track of 1,360 of those children…”

8]. “A rule of thumb is that whenever the foreign-born share of a population surges to somewhere around 15 percent, there is discontent. In the United States, the foreign-born share has tripled since 1970 and is now around 15 percent.”

9]. “No one makes excuses for Sotelo’s driving drunk. but one offense decades ago should not define his life.”

10]. “Even for Americans who welcomed more deportations, there’s something chilling about the militarization of the crackdown and echoes of police state practices…”

11] “consider also the financial cost of all this. ICE says that “the average cost to arrest, detain and remove an illegal alien is $17,121.” Thus the administration’s goal of one million deportations would cost $17 billion – and presumably be repeated annually..”

12] “Trump has more than tripled the annual ICE budget to $28 billion, making it the most expensive law enforecement agency in the federal government.”

13]. “Trump is also using officials from other law enforcement agencies to build a deportation army, meaning that fewer law enforcement officers are left to deal with homegrown criminals.’ [READ THIS AGAIN – Trump’s ignoring REAl criminals to make a big show of arresting NON-CRIMINALS ]

14]. “Here in Yamhill County, an agricultural area, there is also widespread concern that mass deportation will hurt the economy, with shortages of agricultural workers already reported.”

15]. “The Peterson Institute for International Economics calculated last year that mass deportation could cause a G.D.P. in 2028 to be 7.4 percent lower than it would be otherwise.”

16]. “Only 35 percent of americans approve of Trump’s handling of immigration…”

17]. “Trump is damaging America’s economy, Shattering families, and destroying small businesses.”